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Originally Posted by Difflugia
I've made a few more observations about WORDSearch.
First, if you link your WORDSearch account with your LifeWay account (go to "My Library List" and add your LifeWay ID), then any LifeWay books with a corresponding WORDSearch resource will be added to your WORDSearch library. For example, Lockman's La Biblia de las Americas is free at LifeWay, but $9.95 at WORDSearch. If you buy it at LifeWay, it will be added to your WORDSearch software.
Several of the Bibles are cheaper at Lifeway than at WORDSearch (the NKJV is $9.95 at WORDSearch, but only $4.99 at LifeWay.
Unfortunately, I don't know how exact the match has to be. There are two editions of the NKJV Study Bible at LifeWay, one of which is only $9.99 (the older edition is $14.99). Does either edition (or both editions) get you the $39.95 NKJV Study Bible notes from WORDSearch? Do you also get the NKJV Bible itself? The LifeWay edition includes it, but the WORDSearch one doesn't.
There are also several editions of the MacArthur Study Bible ( NASB, NIV and NKJV) at LifeWay. Does buying any of those get you the MacArthur Study Notes at WORDSearch and do you get the corresponding Bible translation as well? If you don't get the Bible anyway, the NKJV one is $2 cheaper than the others.
This is important since it suddenly puts some of the resources in a price range that I would pay. LifeWay books only work in the LifeWay app, though, so if they don't end up linking to WORDSearch, they're not worth paying anything for (and I already have most of them as epubs, anyway).
My second observation is that the Android version of WORDSearch is actually nothing like the desktop version. In fact, it looks like it's only an epub reader and gives you access to any WORDSearch resources that also happen to be available at LifeWay (the HCSB is there, but not the Scofield study notes). |
As far as your first point is concerned, WSBs technical support can probably answer your question. If I'm in the buying process, I don't mind bugging Ryan Roberts about it, because he knows by now that I'll be buying from him. But, I wouldn't ask him, if I hadn't done any business with him before and, especially, if I didn't plan to in the future!
I've asked Ryan on one occasion, or maybe two, why WSB didn't give full bibliographic information on their books. What they give now is pretty paltry. Several times, I have had to ask him what edition the book is (in particular, is it the newest version, or an older one)? He said that he didn't know. There may more involved to doing that with books for Bible software, than there is for physical books, or even traditional ebooks.
Thanks, again, for a heads up on the so-called WSB Android app. I had toyed with getting it, but I certainly won't now. I actually have a fairly new Android phone. But I'm not interested in activating phone or even data service. I just don't like the small screen and the compromises that websites and/or the smartphone's operating system makes to get as much as possible of a webpage packed on the screen. But I may have to activate it. I had/have an old flip phone, that was/is doing everything that I really want to do on the go, but I have lost it. I may have to make a change.